Re: process failure and gaps
>in France, average Joe .. doesn't have any authority to ask for your ID card
Merde, but how can they check you are over 18 to buy Red Bull/Wine/Cough mixture when you are obviously 50+ ?
Think of the children,
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The problem is that the Earth is round.
Launching polar orbits from the northern bits of the UK is OK (except for weather)
Launching eastwards is a problem since a failed launch would fall on some grumpy foreigners with rockets of their own.
Equatorial launches are right out due to the insistence that Britain remain in Europe
UK Cyber Defence Force Commandos are currently infiltrating Iranian nuclear facilities by sending videos of the Rugby team in drag.
UK Cyber Defense Force is currently trying to expand it's recruitment to non-traditional candidates who may have gone to a school where there were girls !
Microsoft employees refusing to get vaccinated because Bill Gates will put microchips in them?
Don't they know that Microsoft HW is really good - it's only their software that lets them down.
I can see Googlers being concerned though - you get the Google microchip and then 6months later they drop support for it
We use Microsoft Teams, so we just stationed all our staff inside Microsoft's data center in case they need to turn anything off or on again - latency is fantastic although they complain it is cold and noisy
Interestingly all our remote people ended up using teamviewer to work on their desktops at work - main problem was access to massive shared data sets and site licences for expensive modelling tools.
We seem to have reinvented dialup mainframe access
De-orbit isn't going to be a problem, the orbit of Starlink is so low that they will be lucky to last 5 years.
Of course if OFCOM is unhappy with this it can ban them operating in the UK. But their only potential customers are likely to be in remote bits of the highlands and islands - so no real political problems of banning rebellious Scots from having internet.
And sovereign Britain can always impose sanctions on the USA to prevent SpaceX being able to build them.
I had a 'brainstorming' interview with a now-defunct Cambridge technical consultancy where I came up with a new invention, and jokingly said "I should patent that"
A month later I interviewed with another team in the same company and they described the same problem - I told them the previous idea and they answered "Oh we had some consultant suggest that a few weeks ago but we couldn't make it work"
Many many years ago I cancelled an interview at BAe.
They still called me on the morning of the interview and asked where I was, I explained that I thought the project they were working on was a fiasco that would obviously be cancelled and they would be shut down.
Many Many billions of £/$ later the project obviously is a fiasco but strangely hasn't been cancelled.